On
Sunday, February 22, the Michigan in Ann Arbor presented "the one and only
Greta Garbo" in her latest MGM film, Inspiration,
co-starring Robert Montgomery and Andy Hardy's screen dad, Lewis Stone.
A year earlier, Garbo starred in her first sound film, Anna
Christie, while 1932 would bring one of her greatest triumphs,
Grand Hotel.

Visitors
to the Redford enjoyed a new film about every two days, including Paid,
with Joan Crawford. "It was a new role to her - a tough role, a girl ruined
by the law - and her success in it caused comment," wrote film historian
David Shipman in The Great Movie Stars: The Golden Years.

The
auditorium of the Detroit Institute of Arts hosted a free organ concert
on February 13 which was part of a series of Friday evening recitals. Every
Saturday morning, the DIA presented a "free motion picture for boys and
girls."

Prominent
Detroit film premieres included Oscar's best picture of 1930/31, Cimarron,
at the RKO Downtown (Adams at Grand Circus Park). Charlie Chaplin's silent
City Lights
("A Comedy in Pantomime") opened at the United Artists (Bagley at Grand
Circus Park).